TOKYO -- Public support in Japan for expanding official development assistance has fallen to its weakest level in the past decade, as hostility driven by economic woes is stoked further by U.S. moves to shut down Washington's main foreign aid agency.
In the government's latest annual public survey on diplomacy, 25.1% of respondents said Japan should pursue development cooperation more actively, down 2.1 percentage points from the previous poll for fiscal 2023, results released this month show.
